Voices of Recovery video: Wayne's story, new EPA regulations jeopardize Kansas jobs

While President Obama continues to beg Congress to pass his American Jobs Act, his radicalized Environmental Protection Agency, with its MACT rules, threatens jobs. The Heritage Foundation calls them "onerous." MACT establishes "maximum achievable control technology" standards limited emissions of mercury, acid gases and non-mercury metals from power plants.

Wayne Penrod is the Executive Manager of Environmental Policy at Sunflower Electric Power Corporation in Kansas, a not-for-profit cooperative. As he explains in the Voices of Recovery video--which was produced by the House Oversight Committee, the MACT rules will kill 2,000 jobs in Holcomb, where Penrod's firm wants to open a new power plant.



Actually, the EPA threatens jobs in many other ways too.

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